suspicious - Story 145827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor, Jessica, felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The script in front of her, the same one as on her competitor's desk, was eerie. Both her and Derek, her rival, had been sent the same pre-prepared news segments.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach. Derek had been unusually eager to chat recently, asking about her work schedule and potential stories. This was not normal.

Jessica smoothed the paper, her fingers leaving smudges on the crisp pages. She had to find out why they had been given the same script. She looked over at Derek, her face now a mask of professional composure.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284